The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 5, 1900, Page 5

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She was taken to the Recel ing Hospital in the ambulance and the | remedies were applied. The doctors | she has about an even chance for her | life. On the night of January 9 she was ar- | rested for being drunk, and while in a eell | at the California-street Police Station she | attempted to strangle herself with her belt. She was found in an unconscious conditfon and sent to the hospital, she soon recovered. About three ago she shot herself in the mouth. O'C ONNOR (I «BROS ' rocer 122-124 NINTH STREET. TELEPHONE SOUTH 63, QUALITY AND QUANTITY SPEAK for THEMSELVES. | Best Family Flour, per sack. 20 pounds of Beans for... 13 pounds of Rice for.... Best Sugar Corn, 3 cans for. Good Tomatoes, per can.... Best Eastern Hams, per pound ern Cheese, per pound..... Beans ........ A5 10 pounds Rolled Oats for.. Best Costa Rica Coffee, per pound. Best Salvador Coffee, per pound.. Good Family Mixed Coffee, 2 Ibs for. Best Family Mixed Tea, per pound. per gallon.... 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COAL, COKE AND PIG IRON. J.C. WILSON & CO-. 22 Rone ety shae. | COPPERSMITH. JOSEPH FOX, Supt. H. BLYTH, Mgr. CW.SHITH Sidsnlp Worc's speciatiy- 36 and 1f Washington st. Telephone Main 5641 FRESH AND SALT MEATS. JAS. BOYES & €., Butchers. 104 Shippt Clay. .'*IL Main 1204 FURS. 4 Kearn o1, upstams. Lates J. N. LOFSTAD, styles, lowest 'prices, remodeling, PAPER DEALERS. WILLAMETTE PUL® AXDPAPER co. 722 Montgomery st. PRINTIND. E C AUGHES, s sineomesivs 7. STATIONE? AND PRINTER. Teigstis PARTRIDGE ™ Csiicrme WHITE ASH STEAM COAL, %i:°p, THE mg; 'REEN in the DIAMOND COAL MINING CO., at its RIVER COLLIERIES, is the Hest market. Office and Main | departments on a | from San Francisco to-day, where it in- | tersects the Alameda and San Joaquin | Railroad track, about three miles south was trying to steal a ride back. | —_—— | planning a work which will be of practi- WHKT 1T C0ST 70 AR WITH SPAIN Vast Sum Expended by Uncle Sam. Pt il OFFICIAL FIGURES COMPILED ——— OVER THREE HUNDRED AND MILLIONS SPENT. ———— Through the Philippine Insurrection America Has Had to Pay Dearly for Its Experience With Imperialism. SRR LS Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL HEADQUARTERS, WELLING- TON HOTEL, WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.— From the breaking out of the war with Spain to the present time the total ex- penditures of the Government on account of that war and on account of the hostili- ties in the Philippines, amount in round figures to about $355,000,000. It is impossible to calculate accurately the cost of the war for the reason that it | is not possible to tell In all cases just how much expenditures made under a given heading are in excess of those that would have been made had it not been for the war. As nearly as can be estimated the war expenditures have been about as follows: On account of the War Department, $255,000,000; on acount of the Navy Depart- ment, $69,000,000; paid to Spain for the | Philippines, $20,000,000; interest on war loan to date, $9,000,000; increased expenses | in departmental service in Washin, Total war expenditures, - ,000. The national defense fund of $50,000,000, voted by Congress on the eve of the breaking out of the war, was placed at the disposal of the President without any limitations whatever and allotments from | it were made to various departments as | needed to meet expenditures for which | Congress had not specifically appro- priated. The largest allotments, $29,973,274 22, was made to the Navy Department, and was principally used for the purchase of ves- | sels, guns, ammunition and supplies. Some of the principal items of expenditure un- der this allotment were: Purchase of ves- sels, $17,780,485 27; alterations and repalrs to vessels, $1,111,474 54; bureau of ordnance (guns, ammunition, etc.), $5,582,888 45; pur- chase of guns, ammunition and supplies | abroad, $1,327,017 26; buildings, etc., at navy yards, stations, $690,857 18; hire and | running expenses, chartered vessels, $475, 422 87. 87. Aliotments amounting to $1899,677 63 were made to the War Department from which principal expenditures were: Under ordnance bureau, $9,081,49 86; under en- gineer bureau, $685,000; under quartermas- ter's bureau, $1,989,230 82; under medical | bureau, $1,520,000. | Allotments of $325,118 68 to State De- | partment and $150,008'09 to Treasury De- partment were aiso made from this fund to be used for expenses incurred by these ccount of the war. “THE BEAUTIFUL CITY.” Eloquent Address of Dr. Jordan at Stanford. | STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb 4.—| President David Starr Jordan spoke in the university chapel this morning, taking as the subject of his text ““The Beautiful City.” The whole discourse was a plea | for the proper attitude of the individual toward his surroundings. Everything that exists is for a purpose, and If viewed from the proper standpoint is beautiful. There is nothing in nature that is not | perfect to that form of life which has perfectly adapted itself. “Even the Mo- | jave Desert,” said the speaker, “fur-| nishes a perfect home for its plant and | animal life. “Once the world was a vale of tears, a lace of awful penitence, {llumined only gy the grace of God. To-day we rejoice | in It, for we realize that it is the grace of God which shines though and illumines | it for us. | “Adaptation to conditions brings happi- ness. If we see things as they are, and what lies behind them, we are bullding for harmony. We are well in all that's well, that do well, that we strive well | for. It is an old saying that no harm can | come to the good man, be he alive or ead. | “We should give thanks for the infinite | justice of things; that uglingss, inhar- | mony and wrong bring failure; that har- | mony brings happiness. There is no limit | to the power of him who strives for right. | “We can write a minus sign before | every good thing and it turns to bad. But all wrong is only good uncompleted. Vice | is good impulse premature and ineffective anger, a reactlon premature and fatuous. | War itself, one of the greatest curses of | the world, is but misdirected courage. To live through and above these things is the test of a strong life.” s dtnd s FELL UNDER A TRAIN. Boy Loses His Life While Stealing a Ride. STOCKTON, Feb. 4 —While endeavoring to board the 1:05 Southern Pacific train of town, Daniel, the 16-year-old son of Night Watchman Ahern of the Southern Pacific Company, fell under the wheels and was instantly Killed, his body being horribly mangled. He had stolen a ride to that point on a southbound train, and Lectures for Fruit-Growers. Special Dispatch to The Call. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Feb. 4— The faculty of Stanford University is cal benefit to the fruit-growers of the State. Commencing with the week be- ginning Monflni’. February 19, 1900, a se- rles of special lectures on subjects relat- ing to the horticultural interests will be given at Stanford, under the auspices of those departments whose work is related to the work of fruit-growing. All persons interested are invited to attend the lec- tures and to spend the week at the uni- versity considering the broader aspects of fruit-growing Jewell May Go Free. Bpecial Dispatch to The Call. WOODLAND, Feb. 4—Fritz Jewell, the commercial traveler arrested in Alameda on a charge of obtalning money under false pretenses, will probably not be pros- ecuted. He received a telegram yester- day afternoon from the Co-operative Fur- niture Company of Rockford, Ill, inform- ing him that it would homor his draft for $65. A local firm that deals with the Rock- ford is expecting a telegram requesting that the check be P‘jd‘ soon as it is received Jewell will probably be released. ————— Bought by Northern Pacific. NEW YORK, Feb. 4—It is announeed in Wall street that the Northern Pacific Railroad Company has purchased the | western section of the Monte Cristo and | Everett Rallroad, with its terminals at Everett, Wash,_ The property was former- ly owned by John Rockefeller. The l{ne of raliroad purchased extends from Snohomish to Everett, a distance of elev- en miles, and the terminals, which the Northern Pacific will utilize in the devel- opment of its Pacific Coast business, are ex.ensive and valuable. i e Bordain Released. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. WOODLAND, Feb. 4.—Albert Bordain was released from jail yesterday. This mornin;hhe hnp:t:hltad his oox;!mllnn and denied that he any knowledge of th thett of the Miller jewels. As the o 5 cers_have no [dence upon which the; can hold him it was decided to_turn bot] him and Miller loose. Fred Miller has offered a handsome reward for the re- turn of the rings. 1t you are framing pictures examine our new moldings and mat boards, in tints to match. Any picture can be appropriately fitted in B S A | countless generations. of PURSUED BY N JRMED MADHAN Valley Butcher’s Narrow Escape. e LUNATIC CARRIED AN ADZE AL TSAR FELLED AS HE WAS ABOUT TO STRIKE. A AT Later Lodged in the Jail at Sausa- lito and Almost Drowned by the Rising Tide. ST 7L Spectal Dispatch to The Call MILL VALLEY, Feb. 4—An Insane car- Mill penter named Wilson armed with a hatch- et chased Charles Stark, a local butcher, | through the main street here yesterday, | and for several minutes panic prevailed | among’ the townspeople. Later the man | was placed In Sausalito jail and nar- | rowly escaped being drowned by the tide | invading his cell and convarting his place | of incarceration into a watery grave. | At abput nocn yesterday Stark was | walking past the place of business occu- | pled by Harvey Klyce, a builder, and Wl | son's employer, when a warning shout from the opposite side of the street made | him turn. He saw Wilson brandishing a | glittering adze within a few feet of him. Realizing that he was attacked by a m niac, Stark took to his heels, pursued by the lunatic shrieking at the top of his | voice. Fear lent Stark wings and he | managed to keep ahead of his pursuer, | although he was every moment losing | strength. The insane man had raised his | weapon for a blow, which would have crushed the butcher’s skull like an egi shell, when Constables Magner and Me- Donald arrived on the scene. A blow from Magner's club brought Wilson to | time, and the officer was about to place | handcuffs on him when he sprang up and | attempted to fell Magner by a viclous | blow. So violent did he become that a | second blow was needed to render him | submissive to arrest. Wilson was *aken | to Sausalito on an evening train and placed In the jail, a one-story structure, | which would be dignified by the title of hog pen. It is below the level of the sea, and in the night when the tide rose it burst the levee, and the unfortunate Wil- | son came very near being drowned. When 1 this morning he found the prisoner shiv-| ering in his wet clothes. Wilson was | taken out and placed in a temporary place of confinement. No complaint has yet| is understood that the butcher will charze his assailant with assault to murder. The | townspeople have no hesitation in declar- ing Wilson to be insane. ] ART TREASURE CAUSES HIM NIGHTS OF WORRY| Louis Laviosa, a San Rafael Butcher, | Fears That His Caracci Will Be Stolen. Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN RAFAEL, Feb. 4—Three hundred years ago in Bologna lived Annibale Car- racel, who painted pictures which have made his name one of the most fllus- trious among the old masters. It is ow- ing to this fact that Louis Laviosa, a lo- cal groceryman, knows no peace. In a dingy back attic over his store lies wrapped In a greasy newspaper and in- Josed I a cheap, tarnished frame a valu- able painting by Carracci. It represents the temptation of St. Anthony, and is in Caracel's best style. | Laviosa brought the picture with him to this country from Genoa, where it had hung on the wall of his father's home for When it was de- ided that the family should emigrate the old picture was brought too. In New York Laviosa met Virgil Tojetti, who pronounced _the painting a genuine !‘arraccl. and informed Laviosa that its worth ranged high in the thousands. | Things did not prosper with the Laviosas in Gotham, and so they came to Cali- fornia. Some time since an unscrupulous icture-hunter got wind of the gem which Plaviosa possessed, and money being re- fused resorted to strategy and a dark lan- tern. ckily his attempt to gain pos- session of the painting by stealth was frustrated. Ever since then, however, the picture has been a weight on Laviosa's | mind, and the thought of the treasure in | his garret causes him to look with su: piclon on the casual stranger who ‘“hap- | Pens in” with an order for half a pound | of butter or a packet of tea. The gro- | ceryman has concluded that a bank is | the safest place for his picture, as he| feels that even the greasy paper wrapper would not throw off the track the astute connoisseur who had set his heart on the possession of the Carraccl. s CARMEL VALLEY BEETS. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. MONTEREY, Feb. 4—A representative of the Spreckels Sugar Company has been | in the Carmel Valley, near this place, for | several days past contracting with the | farmers of that section for beets to be | used at the Spreckels sugar factory next season. It Is stated that m number of big contracts have been made and that th output of beets from the Carmel Valley | next season will be very large. | There is a rumor here, said to be au-| thoritative, that if the beet crop of the| valley warrants it, the Southern Pacific | Company will lay a branch rallroad from | Monterey to a central point in the valley, g0 that the beets may be loaded direct | from the fields and not have to be hauled | to Monterey for shipment to Salinas. If | this is done the saving to Carmel Valley | farmers in both time and labor will be considerable ————— Civil Service Examinations. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—The Civil Serv- ice Commisison to-day announced that | examinations for department positions would be held in the following California cities: San Francisco, Ap 6 and 17; ! Santa Barbara, Eureka, Redding, Sacra- mento and San Diego, April 4; An- geles, April 11 and o SUCRE Marine Artist Dies. NEW YORK, Feb. 4—Willlam Stanley Hazeltine, the marine artist, is dead in Rome, aged 64 years. He was a native of Philadeiphia. @44+ 444444444 44444440 HOME STUDY COURSE. } III.—RECENT SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES. Published Wednesdays in The San Francisco Call. ning Wednesday, February 21, 1900. R Raasna s R RS SRR 3 The world has been startled dur- ing the last few months with some remarkable sclentific discoveries known to the public as ‘“Wireless Telegraphy,” “Color Photogra- phy,” “Liquid Alr"” ete. These will be presented in a popular way by Professor William J. Hopkins of Drexel Institute. Among the subjects to be discussed in this se- ries ara the following: Wireless Telegraphy. High Speed Telegraph Systems. Pnotography in Colors. Liquid Air. Dark Lightning. Moving Pictures. Process Engraving Submarine Boats. The New Gases. And others which are especlally + | PP+ TSSO f A SAAAAahsansss s S SSY PrNanmENe e a s s et s el e e e e e S e g % i THE GROWTH OF SHAKESPEARE'S FAME. Copyright, 1800, by Seymour Eaton. POPULAR STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE. Contributors to this course: Dr. Edward Dowden, Dr. William J. Rolfe, Dr. Hamiie ton W. Mabie, Dr. Albert 8. Cook, Dr. Hiram Corson, Dr. Isaac N. Demmon, Dr. Vida D. Scudder and others. XII. SCHOOLS OF SEAKESPEARE Shakespeare’s Contemporary Reputa- tion. Shakespeare’s life was from every point of view successful. He came up to Lon- don a penniless youth, literally to seek his fortune, and retired a quarter of a century later with an imcome which his latest blographer estimates as equivalent to some $25,000 in oyr day. He was a talented actor and the most “drawing” dramatist of a theater-going age. He was distinguished by the spectal favor of Elizabeth and James I is sald to have written him an autograph letter. Short- Iy after his withdrawal from London six of his plays were performed during the splendid marriage festivities of the Princess Elizabeth and the Elector Pala- tine. Elizabethan literature, too, Swarms with references to Shakespeare's playvs and poems. From a rather doubtful allu- sion by Spenser In the early %'s down to the “Epitaph” by Milton in 1632 we have an unbroken chatn of references, and | with the one exception of Greene's out- burst of railing jealously the tone of these is one of praise. Yet it was reputation rather than fame that Shakespeare gained in his lifetime. While his contemporaries valued, they cannot be sald to have apprecfated him. He was considered only as one of the great poets of an age that recognized its own greatness. That he towered far above his fellows no one of them was clear-sighted enough to perceive. By some of the greatest thinkers of his age—Bacon, for instance, and John Sel- den—he is not so much as named. Meres, indeed, assigns to Shakespeare the first place among the English, both in tragedy and comedy, but almost in the next | Constable Richard Garrity visited the {ail | hreath he ranks him with such dusty and forgotten worthies as Dr. Legge of Cam- bridge and Dr. Edes of Oxford. E fellow-players in their preface to | been lodged against him by Stark, but it | First Folio spoke of its masterpleces as “trifles’ presented to their noble patrons. This, in fact, was the general verdict of contemporary criticism in regard to all dramatic productions. A play in those day was meant for the stage, not for the closet. There was a general laugh when Ben Jonson in the very year of Shakes- peare's death publishd his plays under the title of “Works.” But Jonson, who knew so well the value of his own pro- ductions, was the only man of his age to estimate Shakespeare at anything like his proper worth. In the carelessness of confidential conversation he might indeed laugh at the shipwreck on the coast of Bohemia, but when he came to express his fixed and final judgment he struck an- other tone. In the famous lines prefixed to “The First Folio” there is no depreca- tory reference to “these trifles,” no ranking of Shakespeare even with Chaucer or Spenser. nature that gave the matter. Not only, he asserts, does Shakespeare's comedy cast into the shade the wit of Aristo- phantes and Terence, but his sterner notes summon from their graves the great tragedians of the classic past to hear a late-born rival challenge a com- parison of all sent forth by ‘“insolent Greece or haughty Rome,” and with an even finer burst he turns to his country and bids her know her son aright: | “Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all tims." Shakespeare in the Age of the Resto- ration. The civil wars and the closing of the theaters opened a deep abyss between the age of Shakespeare and that of the Restoration. The theater reopened by the returned Stuarts was no longer a na- tional institution. It depended for its very existence upon the favor of the court; and the taste of the court was French, demanding a rhetorical and de- clamatory tragedy and a comedy of manners, where wit served as the apolo- gist of hameless debauchery. Shakes- peare, it is true, was by no means for- gotten. His plays were frequently per- formed upon the Restoration age. But they were too often performed in strange- ly altered versions. Howard, for instance, added a happy ending to - “Romeo an Juliet”; D'Avenant amalgamated ‘“Meas- ure for Measure” and ‘““Much Ado About Nothing.” Even Dryden took part in the mutilation of Shakespeare, rewriting “Troilus and Cressida,” and turning “The Tempest” into a_s of opera, where the verses of Shakespeare’'s loveliest drama stray like lost sheep amid & wilderness of Restoration rant and ribaldry, Yet Shakespeare’s fame owes more to Dryden than to any other English critic, for it was Dryden who in the end vindi- cated the great poet of his nation against he censures which a foreign school of criticism cast upon him. It is not, in- deed, easy to state exactly Dryden’s es- timate of Shakespeare, for, though one of our greatest critics, Dryden was no more consistent in his critical judgments than in his politics or his religion. But his in- consistency is explained in part by the struggle in his own mind between an in- stinctive reverence for Shakespeare's genius and a critical disapprobation of certain Shakespearean pecullarities of style and diction, In part aiso by a steady development of powers of literary judgment. In his first critical essay unsparingly condemns Shakespeare's lov. of puns and too frequent ‘‘bombast,” while acknowledging that “of all modern and, perhaps, all ancient poets, he had the ' largest and most _comprehensive soul.” e prefers the it,”” or_as we would say, ‘‘the genius, of Shakes- peare to the correctness of Ben Jonson, at that time generally regarded as the Teatest, because the most “regular” of gn'll!h dramatists. He is troubled by Shakespeare's “solecisms of speech and notorious flaws of sens. and is es- pecially disturbed by his inequalities of style. Little by little, however, Dryden's own labors in dramatic composition taught him something of the exceeding riches of Shakespeare. He became his | avowed disciple, and in the preface to his verse drama frankly con- first blank 1 1 Imitate the divine fessed, “In my style Shaketpeare * ¢ ¢ and 1 hope I may affirm_that by imitating him I have sur- passed ma/uelr.“ He dwells with par- ticular admiration upon Shakespeare's power of character drawing, due to the “universal mind which comprehended all the characters and passions.”” He upholds Shakespeare as_the national poet and in- sists that “our English reverence for him is much more just than that of the Greeks for Aeschylus.” Compared with Coleridge or Schlegel Dryden’s praise of Shakespeare may seem hesitating and half-hearted. But we must not leave out of account the eritical tem- per of the age in which he lived. The at- titude of what may be called profession- al criticism In his time is represented, though perhaps in an exaggerated form, by Thomas Rymer, to whom “Othello™ was “none other than a bloody farce with- out salt or savor,” and who summed up his criticism of Shakespeare in the moru- mental utterance, N s, this author’'s head was full of villainous, un- natural images.” Shakespeare and the Classical School of Criticism. Dryden is the father of the so-called classical school of Shakesperean criticism, a school which has been the mark for bitter invective by later eulogists of the poet, but which contributed none the less o the growth of Shakespeare's fame. Its greatest representatives. Pope and Johr- son, devoted years to the preparation of revised and annotated ednlon- of his works. In their prefaces they extolled his gentus in the highest terms, though not without some measure of fault-finding. The chief tenet of this school is that He praises the art | that shaped the living line as well as the | | to the spectator. sure, endeavored to clear Shakespeare's fame by stigmatizing as interpolations of the player-editors whatever seemed to him unworthy of Shakespe P genius, and Johnson elaborately vindi- cated "him from the common ~ citieal charge of violating the dramatic unities. Yet the_ reader instinctive that Beither Pope nor Johnsen was at home with Shakespeare. It w much an emotion of reverent aw sation of self-conscious uneasin them at the contempla In two noble metaph Shakespeare to an ‘“an plece of Gothic architecture,” 2 majestic Johnson likens his work to a “forest of branch oaks and towering pines, Spersed sometimes with weeds and brambl.s, sometimes giving sh to myrtles and roses.” But the age of Pope and Johnsoa vastly preferred the pse. ssic ¢ the late Renalssance to all fent and majestic Gothic architecture,” and tbe trimly cut parterres of their own gardens to all the untended forests of the wor One feels that Pope's mind ratl on the grinning monstrosi goyles than on “the height, the space, the gloom, the glory,” and Johnson's on the weeds and brambles of “‘tumor, mean- ness, tediou: and obscurity,” which he discovered in the fi peare, rather than on strength of his imagination ¢ grant beauty of his verse, Yet with all its limitations, and in spite of its curious habit of stroking with hand and striking with th, her, th's school has one great merit. definitely established the posit p as a classic, the greatest of sics. “After Dryden’'s death the natural predilection of English readers for great national poet was 3 defended against the assat ters by the immense authority of tf successive chiefs of English letters, son, Pope and Johnson. The School of Textual Criticism. The greatest service rendered to Shakes- peare’s fame by critics of the eighteenth century, however, was the restoration of his text and the preparation of an ade- quate body of explanatory and illustrative comment.” During the seventeenth cen- tury only four editions of Shakespears had appeared, each of them full of gross and manifest corruptions. It is almost impossible for the student of Shakespeare in the revised and corrected editions of to-day to form any conception of the dif- ficulty under which readers of the Au- gustan age labored who had before them only the ill-printed, misspelled and at times utterly nonsensical text of the oid copies. The first attempt at correction was made by the dramatist Rowe, in 1709. He made out lists of dramatis personae for all the plays; he divided into acts and scenes such dramas as had formerly been print- ed in solid wholes, and he supplied exits and entrances. In other words, he tried to make the text as intelligibie to the reader as a stage performance would be He unfortunately re- printed the most corrupt of the old folios, and made no systematic revision of the text, but he improved the reading from time to time by a number of happy con- jectures. Rowe was followed in 1715 by Pope, who promised great thilgs in the way of a pur- ifled and annotated text. But Pope was constitutionally incapable of what he hi self styled the drudgery of an edit hich he tre warning Shakespeare. took He edit would greatest liberties with the old text, strik- ing out whole passages that seemed to him below the dignity of a poet, making alterations upon no better authority than his own opinion, and at times simply re- writing a phrase that seemed obscure. And he cared far too little for the age in which Shakespeare had lived to gather il- lustrative matte~ from e treasury of Elizabethan lite: H in fa his explanatory n display ignorance rather than knowledge. In consequence of these defects Pope's edition was a distinet disappointment, and a rival soon entered the fi This was the work of Theobald, the “piddling Tie- bald” of the Dunciad, a writer of poot plays and worse poems, but a eritlc of the very highest order. FHe possessed a fine ear for the rhythm of blank verse and the keenest sense for the nuances of language. To these qualifications he add- ed a vast store of learning in the classical and modern tongues. He knew Eliza- bethan literature better than any other man of his day, and is sald to have read over %0 old piays in preparation for his edition. Morevoer, he was at once con- scientious and indefatigable in the labor of collation and transeription. His guid- ing principles, enunciated in a letter to Warburton, remain to this day authori- tative canons for textual emendation. “T ever labor,” he says, “to make the smallest deviation that T possibly can from the text: never to alter at all where 1 can by any means explain a passage into sense; nor ever by any emendations to make the author better when it is prob- able that the text came from his own hands.” : 3 He restored from “The First Follo” a number of true readings which had been lost in later editions, and corrected many corrupt and obscure passages by conjec- tures as happy as brilliant. The most familiar of these, of course, Is the emen- datio certissima, which has restored to us the last words of Falstaff. In spite of this abuse of Pope and the neglect of pro- fessed scholars, Theobald’s work met with an immediate and gratifying sue- cess. Seven editions of it were published within the next forty years, a remarkable roof, by the way, of the growth of ghnesmnre's fame when compared with the four editions which had satisfled the demand iIn the preceding century. Theobald's most scholarly suceessor was undoubtedly Capell, who blished dan edition of Shakespeare in IT6S. Some inherent defect seems to have rendered him incapable of expressing himself in English of even ordinary intelligibility. “He should have come to me,” said John- son, patronizingly, “and I would have en- dowed his purposes with words, for as it he doth gabble monstrously.” But his tter is excellent. The Cambridge edi- tors call his preface “by far the most valuable contribution to Shakespearean criticism that had yet appeared. And the text that he offered to the public was practically & new ome, constructed by a most careful and systematic collation of all the old coples, and approaching far nearer to the ideal text of Shakespeare than anything that had yet appeared. Only one more name needs to be men- tioned in this connection, that of Malone. He was by taste and temper a literary antiquary rather than a eritic. He was an unwearied explorer of dusty records and had access to manuseripts which have since disappeared. Naturally, he turned to Shakespeare's biography and to the sources and chromology of his plays. He made. for example, the first rational attempt to determine the succession of Shakespeare’s dramas, and his research- es lald the foundation for much of the that had been subsequent knowledge gained along these lines. In closing_this topic a word must be said of the Variorum editions of Shakes- peare, embracing the best notes of all the editors and supplying the student with a cox:gtlete apparatus criticus. These be- gan h 's reprint of the Steevens- Johnson edition in , and concluded with the younger Boswell's edition in 1821, based upon Malone and including a great number of that scholar's manuscript notes. The American Variorum of Dr. Furnes Is too well known and highly prized to need more than a mention. Note—This study by Dr. Parrott of Princeton University will be concluded to- morrow. On Wednesday Hamilton W. Mabie will conclude the course with 2 pa- per on “How to Study Shakespeare.” Sportsmen Were His Victims. Harry Schroeder, a Barbary Coast rounder, was arrested last Saturday night by Detectives Ryan and O'Dea and locked in the tanks In the City Prison. Schroeder has of late been viciimizing owners of shotguns in this city. His plan was to learn the name of an owner and then send a note asking for the loan of his shotgun, signing the name of some friend. In cases the scheme would be successful, Mmmawnlflgfl#mwfll it for a small sum. be charged with forgery, 2o 9